A Bad Poem (Satire)

You sit in dark obscurity
watching me,
watching you,
and we watch each other
in quiet silence
in the dark and
alone, only because
we’re silent.
Rhymes lost in
alliteration
of repeated consonants
meaning nothing,
and without intended expression
monosyllables…
of incomplete words
reflecting absent thoughts
that aren’t there.
I think you and I,
the two of us,
grammatical infectors
of every day communication,
are like a lousy poem
no one wants to read,
except for you and I,
the two of us,
till we’re sick of it
but we’re afraid
with fear of an ending
far worse than the beginning
when it started,
and so we sit
silently in the dark,
saying nothing.

Carmen Ruggero © 2004